Government Operations committee  They have their own pay advisers.

Government Operations committee  Some of the processes that have been in place have been in place literally for decades. One of the things we found, for example, was that there are some relatively simple pay transactions that have to be approved and reapproved, say, three or four times before a cheque enters the

Government Operations committee  This is CRA specifically, yes.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. The $250 million in supplementary estimates (C) is specifically to deal with the last remaining agreement from two rounds ago now of negotiations. It's one specific group in the Canada Revenue Agency. To my understanding, they've already paid out at l

Government Operations committee  There is no salary increase. It's not part of this round of negotiations.

Government Operations committee  Right now all of the technical annexes are provided in an Excel format on our website, but if you're looking for the actual items and the explanations of requirements of individual departments, that's certainly something we can look into doing.

Government Operations committee  We could look into providing that as an additional online annex.

Government Operations committee  I have just a little bit of extra information on the police deployments under this funding. Currently 90 Canadian federal and provincial police officers are in arrangements managed through the stabilization and reconstruction task force. Eighty-four of these are in Haiti. A few

Government Operations committee  Are you referring to the change in the main estimates for the Canada school?

Government Operations committee  Yes, but it's a crown, so....

Government Operations committee  The Pacific and Atlantic integrated commercial fisheries is a program that's intended to help integrate first nations and aboriginal fishing enterprises into existing commercial fisheries. It also supports increased accountabilities through increased management and enforcement. T

Government Operations committee  There are...[Technical Difficulty—Editor]...at this point. In fact, the funding in the supplementary estimates is in response to the increased standards that came into effect in July of last year.

Government Operations committee  I'm not certain.

Government Operations committee  Sorry, I was just going to add that the challenge with horizontal types of initiatives is that some are more easily defined than others. The way we present horizontal items in the supplementary estimates.... Our very specific and practical definition is that these are initiativ

Government Operations committee  When a department doesn't use all of its appropriation in a year, it actually does revert entirely to the consolidated revenue fund. What happens is that there are mechanisms through the appropriations that allow us to bring in a corresponding amount of money in the following yea